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Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H.S. Thompson

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard
(1868 - 1930)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE

Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther
German religious reformer (1483 - 1546)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

The National, Paris, 1850

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

The Tribune, Berlin, 1871

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer in US (1882 - 1971)

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard
(1868 - 1930)

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Michelle Shocked

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947)

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